New Untitled Sci-Fi Series starring Seth McFarlane

[Zelph]

I've been seeing this bouncing around the last few days. Apparently Seth McFarlane has been given the greenlight by Fox for a new comedic-drama science-fiction series.

From an article:

The show, set 300 years in the future, will tell the story of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar fleet.

Link to the Variety article: http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/seth-macfarlane-sci-fi-series-ordered-by-fox-1201766714/

Well, Seth is a major Trekkie (appeared in Enterprise, has had the full TNG cast on Family Guy, hosted the script-writer's roundtable on the TNG Blurays) so I'm intrigued. It'll be interesting to see him explore drama a bit more, even with comedy mixed in.

Thoughts?

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
It is so sad that there were no replies to this topic. Personally? I was hesitant because I dislike Seth McFarlane's animated series, but he really is making a great work with "The Orville", it is like he is making such a homage to Star Trek, with a ship that looks like a lovechild between the NSEA Protector and Andromeda Ascendant, and topics per episode that are really interesting while keeping the light ambience, not grim like BSG or ST.

 

[CABAL]

It is so sad that there were no replies to this topic.

I didn't even notice it until you posted. (sorry Zelph)

Anyway, I have to agree with Chile about the show being much better than I expected. I don't even really enjoy his other shows. The Orville, however, is great.

 

[kjc733]

Ditto. I've seen the first ten episodes of Orville and it keeps me entertained. It is nowhere near as slapstick as the adverts made out (I hate slapstick), the humour is generally very well inserted into the plots - which sometimes are Trek copies but sometimes do tackle some serious issues.
Discovery on the other hand (which I've only seen the two part pilot of) had me rolling my eyes at the abject stupidity of certain parties. But that's for a separate thread and only here because people always compare the two.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:

I didn't even notice it until you posted. (sorry Zelph)

Anyway, I have to agree with Chile about the show being much better than I expected. I don't even really enjoy his other shows. The Orville, however, is great.

I totally agree with you as I also dislike Seth MacFarlane's animated series, which made me wary about The Orville... but, after finding out that he only wrote like 4 out of 300 episodes of Family Guy (and even lesser numbers for his other animated series) it made me feel like giving him a chance, and no regrets so far!

Ditto. I've seen the first ten episodes of Orville and it keeps me entertained. It is nowhere near as slapstick as the adverts made out (I hate slapstick), the humour is generally very well inserted into the plots - which sometimes are Trek copies but sometimes do tackle some serious issues.
Discovery on the other hand (which I've only seen the two part pilot of) had me rolling my eyes at the abject stupidity of certain parties. But that's for a separate thread and only here because people always compare the two.

I really like The Orville's ambience of light, of peaceful space exploration, also on Earth and how buildings have the now-so-needed "vertical farming" or just by having trees (like in New York as shown in the series). Totally different to the dark and grim sci-fi the Reimagined BSG started.

I still cannot give a good opinion about Discovery, but you are right as that is a topic for another topic (ehh... *ba dum tss*).